Greek and Turkish leaders in Cyprus today announced reunification talks will be held on September 3 - the latest attempt to find a solution that has eluded the best diplomatic minds for decades. The announcement followed a meeting of Mehmet Ali Talat, the Turkish Cypriot leader, and Dimitris Christofias, a Greek Cypriot, at the abandoned Nicosia airport in the buffer zone that has divided the country for 34 years. It marks a break in a four-year deadlock since Greek Cypriots rejected a UN reunification plan that resulted from years of negotiation and had been accepted by Turkish Cypriots. Groups of experts from both sides have been working together for five months in advance of today's meeting, trying to narrow the gap between the two communities on contentious issues including property and security arrangements. Cyprus was...
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